acknowledgements

a couple of appreciations:

Stefan, Morogoro - for showing me around the MEHAYO (glen project), for being so great with the children, for the invitation in the evening (even if i couldn't make it there)

Ed and Maganga - for a day and a half of fun, for the most exciting pool game (half of Ifakara was watching us), for telling me everything about mosquitos and malaria, for the bike trip to the river, for keeping me company and walking me home, for being really cool guys

Salvina, Ifakara - for being the most helpful person I've met in my life, for staying with me when I felt down, for all the advice and stories that I understood in half (swahili...), for her patience for my swahili efforts, for accompanying me to the train station in the middle of the night, for finding Muhenze

Muhenze, Ifakara - for getting a train ticket for me on the last moment, for guiding me through the pitch-black train station, finding me a seat in the overcrowded carriage, for sharing his blanket with me, for offering me bananas, for such an interesting conversation so early in the morning

a man on the train - for sharing boiled corn with me, for smiling so much and saying nothing

women on the slope of Loleza Peak, Mbeya - for my most wonderful conversation in swahili, for laughing so much, for the invitation to her house for food

Maloti, Mbeya - for being the sweetest guy on earth, for serving me the best wali mboga and the worst chai ever, for joining me at the table every time, for being so brilliant, for letting me develop a tiny crush on him:)

Samu, Mbeya - for helping me so much in Mwanjelwa, for not letting me to get lost, for being so interesting

Tiba, bus to Tabora - for being so kind and beautiful, for the chat, for all the kind words during the scary 27h-long journey on the bus

Suleiman, bus to Tabora - for being sooo kind, for offering me a good seat, for letting me sleap on driver's matress, for the candy, for offering me his food, for all the interesting explanations, for mocking me, when i was afraid of the way his drunken brother drove the bus, for showing me baboons and buchbabies, for driving me to the hostel in tabora

My Imaginary Boyfriend - for saving me lots of time and trouble... :) actually, he's becoming the more and more compleate and complex person. i'll soon start believing in his existence myself. he's a student, lives in poland, we're engaged and we're getting married next year. he still doesn't have a name (nobody's asked so far:))